Brian Bischof, CPA, MCSD, is the author of the best-selling book Crystal Reports .NET Programming. You can download sample chapters and find out more information at his Web site www.CrystalReportsBook.com.
Microsoft's bundling of Crystal Reports dates to Visual Basic 3 and since
then many developers have come to rely on it to build reporting solutions.
Early on some developers found the programming API too complicated and there
were the typical deployment problems that happen with any product that has
many versions and upgrades. There have been many improvements over the years
to address developer concerns, but when Business Objects acquired Crystal
Decisions a little over a year ago Crystal Reports was revitalized.
Developers will see these benefits in Crystal Reports XI and the upcoming
release of Visual Studio 2005 (still in beta).
I'm going to focus on how Crystal Reports XI affects developers and how it
can improve reporting applications. The features that I feel are most
important to .NET developers are web reporting, dynamic cascading prompting,
faster data co... (more)
Brian Bischof, CPA, MCSD, is the author of the best-selling book Crystal Reports .NET Programming. You can download sample chapters and find out more information at his Web site www.CrystalReportsBook.com.
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